On what date did C.S. Lewis die in Oxford, according to biographies?

C.S. Lewis died on 22 November 1963 at his home in Oxford.

He died at The Kilns, the house outside Oxford where he had lived for many years. Lewis was 64 years old. His death occurred on the same day as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, an event that received far greater immediate international attention.

Lewis’s health had declined in the years before his death. He had suffered serious illness and a heart attack, but he continued writing and corresponding. His final years followed the death of Joy Davidman in 1960 and the publication of A Grief Observed.

The date is sometimes misremembered as 30 November because Lewis was born on 29 November and died close to his birthday. It is also sometimes overshadowed by the other major death reported on 22 November 1963. The established biographical date is 22 November 1963.